Applelinks iPod News Reader - Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Ten years old: the world's first MP3 player
Did iPods Cause a Crime Wave?
Nike, Apple Send iPod to Gym
Ten years old: the world's first MP3 player
The Register's Tony Smith reports:
The MP3 player is ten years old this month. The first commercially released personal music player capable of handling MP3 files was the MPMan F10, manufactured by Korea's Saehan Information Systems and launched in March 1998.
The F10 contained 32MB of Flash storage, enough for a handful of songs encoded at 128Kb/s. It measured 91 x 70 x 165.5mm. It connected to an old-style parallel port on the host PC from which songs could be copied to the player. There was a tiny LCD on the front to give an indication as to what you were listening to.....
The Rio was released in September 1998, but by 8 October had become the subject of a lawsuit from the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA), which claimed the player violated the 1992 US Home Recordings Act. By that point, Rio had already teamed up with MP3.com to offer songs from the website....
To read more, click here.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/10/ft_first_mp3_player/
Did iPods Cause a Crime Wave?
AP Technology Writer Brian Bergstein says:
It's easy to see why iPods would be alluring targets for criminals: The music players are valuable and easy to resell, and people absorbed in their personal soundtracks can be vulnerably oblivious to their surroundings.
But could the temptation for stealing iPods be so strong that they're behind an increase in the crime rate? Researchers at a public policy institute say yes.
They argue that the tantalizing gadgets are perhaps the main reason U.S. violent crime rose in 2005 and 2006 after declining every year since 1991 - although a close look at the findings suggests the hypothesis has holes.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080304/ipods_crime.html?.v=2
Nike, Apple Send iPod to Gym
Associated Press Writer Sarah Skidmore reports:
Nike and Apple are making the iPod compatible with gym equipment.
The companies said Tuesday that they are working with several gym equipment manufacturers and the health clubs 24-Hour Fitness and Virgin Athletic Health Clubs to allow members to plug their iPod Nanos into cardio equipment. They can then track workouts, set goals and upload the information to a Nike Web site.
The new technology is expected to start rolling out to more than 500 gyms worldwide this summer.
For the full report visit here:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080304/nike_apple_gym.html?.v=1
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